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Sep 8, 20211 min read
In Love with Uncertain Future
What began as a summer encounter now drags itself inexorably through a painful slog toward an uncertain end. I see what you cannot say...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
Icarus
There were signs, signals, and warnings a subtle crack in the mind, an internal unwinding. Overwhelmed, you fled outward, away, against...
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Jul 7, 20211 min read
Mustang
You are trapped in the box canyon of my heart its high jagged yellow ochre walls a western New Mexico no-man’s-land. You whirl like a...
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Jun 9, 20211 min read
Saturday Night
In the collected humid light of dusk, an orange sun slowly sinks below the hayfield, and we come to the farmhouse in the relief that is...
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May 12, 20211 min read
Beautiful Things
I sat in the back of the library with my seventeen- year-old friends. With heads down, we flipped through bridal magazines and whispered...
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Apr 7, 20211 min read
The Ritual
I slay my fears and place them on the altar, the last obstacles preventing our union. Though a pagan, I kneel, sing the hymns, pretend to...
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Mar 10, 20211 min read
Making an Entrance
March roared in, a lion breathing snow, ice, wind, and bitter cold as it drug winter along behind, like the hock of a dead animal. It...
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Feb 10, 20211 min read
Renaissance
We are all glaciers as we transform, split, and calf pieces of ourselves. Beliefs fall away. Discarded and outdated, the mind seeks new...
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Jan 6, 20211 min read
Choices
The precariousness of life strikes you only as you move through it. Like a maze with dark alleys and tight turns, it careens out of...
Dec 7, 20201 min read
Regret
When the path diverges, we must always choose, not knowing if the road untaken will ever present itself again. With the benefit of time...
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Nov 6, 20201 min read
Marking Time
Existing is not living. It is marking hours, hiding in plain sight, pretending nothing is wrong.
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Oct 7, 20201 min read
Permission
We are not allowed to feel the sun warm our face for more than a fleeting moment. We are not allowed to bask in newfound love without...
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Sep 9, 20201 min read
Waves
Love shifts, like a herd of horses drifting over the wide prairie, changing directions as the wind blows.
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Aug 12, 20201 min read
What Remains Unsaid
What remains unsaid rolls out with the tide after parting. Time and distance provide the illusion of safety. But beneath the calm, the...
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Jul 9, 20201 min read
Summer
Summer glides like a vulture surveying its prey; merciless and low, it circles and calculates. Silently, it touches down and cackles as...
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Jun 11, 20201 min read
Resuscitation
Amidst the raw carnage, my beating heart lies still. After their deaths, the chamber drained, empty. But now, distance and time have...
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May 15, 20201 min read
Prairie Storm
The wind whirls the spring storm down the mountain, across the wide valley chased by laden rain clouds. Fat drops splatter on rocks and...
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Apr 8, 20201 min read
Comfort from the Dead
Crocus return each spring to brighten the graveyard. Purple, yellow, white, and pink blossoms open. Small bright shining blossoms face...
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Feb 6, 20201 min read
Unrequited
My love, unrequited, stills and shatters my heart as night lays down its thick woolen death shroud.
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Jan 15, 20201 min read
Buffalo Seasons
Snow swirls through valleys. Trudging through drifts, they forage, surviving winter. Ice melts swelling streams. Earth’s new life sings,...
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